Carol Vorderman Trivias

Father is Dutch; mother is Welsh.

TV personality

Grew up in Leeds, UK.

Studied engineering at Cambridge University; graduated in 1981.

When she first appeared as a TV personality, she used the name Carol Mather, her married name at the time.

Daughter: Katie, 1991, with King

Member of MENSA with IQ of 167

In 2004 she was voted runner-up in a Radio Times poll of 'Thinking Man's Crumpet', behind fellow forty-something Nigella Lawson. Came sixth in a Sky TV survey of men's sexual fantasies.